Once while launching birds off the Nimitz every 30 seconds we were asked by the air boss to slow it down a lil bit.

100 years last March. Took a lot of trial, error and lives to get this efficient.

@@bryanst.martin7134 Exactly correct! At our first carrier to carrier battle at Midway it took almost 2 hours to launch the entire strike force. It was truly a fiasco. By the end of the war when we had like 30 carriers and experienced pilots, we could spit a strike force out in under thirty minutes. At what history calls the Marianas Turkey Shoot, we took out like 400 Japanese planes to our 29 losses. Practice makes perfect and you practice how you fight. That's why we are second to none on, in or above any ocean!

And not a word was spoken. All done by Sign Langy

That's what she said

Nighpaw and don't forget the SOUNDS! I watched from the island of the USS Essex a few times in the mid "50's and even from that distance the noise was deafening!

You were a friend to a photographer, but what did you do? That was a joke.

I just want to know about the aliens, man!

@@westrim That was good! 😄

Scary place to be!

Wow 🙌🙌🙌🫶🙏

Did you learn to chew someone's ass with hand signs? That's when you know you can cuss in any language, you're a real sailor.

Yes, absolutely! Now I know HOW these aircraft are marshalled to lineup with the catapult shuttle (little right, little right, MORE right) - awesome little details the Chinese are going to have to learn in order to do it right.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eNt5ldmJxKibo40.html Cable snap, first guy manages to double jump. Others not so lucky. Crazy.

Nah, crab fishing is much more dangerous, or so im told by discovery channel.

@@ptbot3294 Pretty sure making pizzas is about 3 times more dangerous than both of those things (carrier worker n crab catcher worker)

Yeah i hate when I open the oven and get sucked into the turbofan and disintegrate and end up being my own pizza topping.

Swivel head is important. I worked night ops in an F-4 squadron. I was in between the JBD and the bird waiting for the turkey feathers to open up all the way. Then I’d lift my flashlight.

I don't think so, top fuel dragster 330 mph in under 4 sec in 1000 ft that planes doing no where near 330 mph coming off the carrier. the planes are big and heavy and impressive but not faster acceleration

Couldn't have said it better myself! I love the smell of jet fuel in the morning :)

The Lockheed Martin S-3A🛩 Vikings replaced the Grumman S-2 Trackers🛫. I 👨‍🔧was in the S3-A squadren, "VS-33 Screwbirds"🔩🐦 With Carrier Airwing 9✈ aboard the USS Nimitz 🛳 & was stationed at NASNI🏝, SanDiego🌇🏙🌃! Thankya for sharing the video. . . . "Salute", sir👨‍✈️!Welcome 🇺🇸home🇺🇲, Brother!

I'm not a pilot but love the smell of my 2 cycle toys 😁 so I'm with ya in spirit 100%

S2=Stoof with a roof:)

To add a bit of clarity to the replies here: The S-2F (Stoof) Tracker was the shipboard ASW version of the C-1A Trader, commonly called the COD. The newer COD, the C-2A(R) Greyhound, is shown here in this video. The E-1 Tracer was the AEW version, a sister airframe to the Tracker and Trader, and carried a large radome over its fuselage, earning it the moniker "Stoof with a Roof".

This ☝

@@flyrobroy haha I'm just a plumber too. It's only what I could imagine being catapulted off a deck of a ship

those props are designed to pull hard and aren't counter rotating, it's gonna have natural roll.

@@user-ic4ut9uq9i I hope the Royal Commission helps things

I was with VR 30 out of both alameda and north island, in 1976-1979 decommissioned An gave the dc9 to 50+55 moved to north island. Lots of stories and memories

Right?!

Uh, yeah…

Either that or get mauled by those spinny things

That's the stop, drop and grab something that don't let you get sucked in thing. I had to do that once when I found myself looking down the throat of a turning A6. I wrapped myself around the nose gear and hung on for dear life. I submitted a SRC to change rates from AT to ET and retired a CPO. To hell with planes!😂😂

As a Photographers Mate on the Nimitz, I had to take pictures of “parts” of someone who was sucked into a A-6…

Brilliant side hustle.

No, you're right. It was almost like being there.

Gracias Favio!

@@flyrobroy Thanks in my language, is more than welcome! Gracias mi amigo!

I got scared when I saw that tag on the screen. I'm thinking, geez, do we really need annoying background music. Just let us hear the noise in all its glorious wonder. But ok, for a 'technical difficulties, please stand by' reason, I was fine with it. I wish other aviation channels would knock it off with the background music while they are telling us about this or that incident. Just talk, no music. So, I'm now gonna sub, cause I want to see more of this great stuff.

hello, I was on Connie 4 years V-3 division 2 Westpacs 69-70, 71-72. Director bay 2 Phantoms and Vigilantes. great memories.

Really envy you guys. I joined the Navy in 91, ended up in the oil lab and then one of the last boiler techs. You guys had some serious excitement. I did however love being involved with UNREPS. Thanks for your service fellas. USS COMSTOCK LSD 45

I worked as a gas pumper during college summers. As a start-up pilot with Air Oregon. In ~1977, my Dad flew Piper Navajos, that I taxied and cleaned on Sunday evenings at the FBO. He quickly went to early Metroliners with a rocket engine in the tail. Transitioned to screaming Rolls Royce engined F-27s. Then into the short hot-rod early Dash 8s. I loved the sound of that plane and he loved flying it until he was forced to retire at 60. He wasn't happy. The Q-400 is a great airplane but it just doesn't have the go-fast looking lines of the early Dash-8s. I think the early Dash-8s are all gone now in commercial use. Dad passed in 2016. I still miss him. Lots of people don't believe me that the early Metroliners had a Rocket in the tail. Including Reserve USAF pilots. FYI. From Air Oregon Website: In 1974, the original Metro models were replaced by the SA226-TC Metro II after about 20 Metros and about 30 Merlin IVAs had been built.[note 2] Among the changes made were larger, squared-oval windows and optional provision for a small Rocket-Assisted Take Off (RATO) rocket in the tail cone, this being offered to improve takeoff performance out of "hot & high" airfields in the event of an engine failure.

@@msmeyersmd8 Air Inuit here in Québec still use the dash 8's. Even the 737 200's. There are gravel runways still in northern Québec. There is a company in Newfoundland turning the dash 8's into cargo planes.

@@HuckThis1971 Thanks for the info. I've seen a video about the early 737s with a nose wheel kit added to keep gravel from the runways from being thrown up and into the engine intakes. I think it was about Canadian Northern Territories. I always loved watching the bucket reversers being deployed on those early 737s. I'm glad to know the Dash-8s are still soldiering on. After all they were Canadian built airplanes with Canadian PT-6 engines (I think). When new they were perfect for short hops throughout the Pacific Northwest with Air Oregon/Horizon Airlines. Are any of the 4-engine Dash-7s still operating in Canada?

@@msmeyersmd8 If I am not mistaken yes. I know transport Canada has one based in Ottawa. I see it go up and down the Ottawa River.

Plenty of sad stories out there, for sure. Unfortunately, I have a few of my own as well. Thanks again and Merry Christmas!

Thank you for your service 🫡❤ my dad served on USS Bon Home Richard in the late 40s...sad stories. Butmy son serves .2 tours Afghanistan about to get out. And now my grand daughter!!! Im so proud.

Those props are scary. That crew seemed so close to those blades.

Yeah imagine the catapult fires and brings the spinning blades right through you

​@@guitrich it's partly due to the flattened perspective of the camera lens, but being anywhere near in the direct line of those things feels like looking down a gun barrel! They're a bit back from the nose, but it's still pretty nearby, especially if the aircraft could lurch forward at any moment.

@@LayneBenofsky I'd be more scared about the catapult, that thing can launch those aircrafts like they are roller-coasters. I wouldn't want to be anywhere near both though!

i think 2:05 sums that feeling up, pretty nicely

VF-11 Oceana '74-'78 Loved that place!

Thanks and will do!

Will do and thank you!

Thank you for your service. I've been on it as a tourist my first time in San Diego, quite a sight inside and up on the deck.

Richard, what years did you serve on the midway??

@@michaeld53 1976-78 & 1985-1988.

I got to go on the midway right before you guys decommissioned. We were grabbing parts for our boiler. So cool to be on that old girl while she was still in service.

Thanks so much!

My former CO from the USS Saratoga was the pilot who landed and took off from the Forrestal in a C-130. He spent most of his career as a fighter pilot, though.

The CAG-5 C-2 det took top hook one month on the 1999 Kitty Hawk cruise. Pissed off all the jet drivers something fierce.

Unfortunately, no ejection seats on the E2C. One of the reasons why a relative pushed to cross train to the FA18

On camera 🎥 it’s called the Stroboscopic Effect.

I have a relative who used to fly the E2C And later the FA18

I served on the Lexington in the late 60s tad from vt-21 for car quals I was an ams on f-9 .they hooked to the cat with a bridle. Worked on the flight deck as a checker.id do it Ina heartbeat again and I'm 75. .

Awesome!! I was a green shirt too, cat 1 on the Enterprise then gear on the Roosevelt. My dad got to enjoy flight ops in the tower by the air boss on his tiger cruise.... Good times

Thank you! In this case, he was standing off to the left (out of the frame). They are never in the control tower though - that’s for the Air Boss. They are either standing on the flight deck or right below in a ‘bubble’. Usually only on bad weather days though.

No, he’s on the “catwalk”, a pathway next to the flight deck. Yes it’s very dangerous, as a former Photographers Mate I had to have permission from the photo officer and flight ops to work there. Of course every pilot in every squadron had to have their cat shot photo…

@@roydrink Actually, Roy, the "Shooter" is either on the deck between the two catapults (as to perform the duty alternating between the cats if both are operating), or in the bubble. The deck edge operator (in the catwalk) does depress the launch button at the command of the Shooter, if that station is being utilized during the launch cycle... and it's an enlisted person from V2, but he/she is not "the Shooter". Now days there is also an option where an enlisted person, in some situations brings the aircraft all the way to the brink of launch, as a Shooter would, and then the actual Shooter in the bubble fires the cat.

Nope, you saw it correctly. These props turn the same direction and as far as I know, most if not all props on multi engine planes turn the same direction... So with 4,800 shaft horsepower on each engine on the C-2, we are CONSTANTLY putting in a full boot of rudder.

@@flyrobroy it's a maintenance simplification thing. Only having the props spin one direction means only having: One set of replacement blades One set of turbine blades One set of gearbox components One set of engines One set of miscellaneous bits and bobs One work manual for that aircraft You have to double at minimum the propeller blade count, the miscellaneous bits, the manuals and training, and either the turbine bits/engines or the gearboxes (gearboxes are how the A400 has contra-rotating blades). It might make her a little harder to fly at full thrust, but it'll make her a thousand times easier to maintain for the shops.

That was exactly one of the things they had to worry about when they dropped the nuclear weapons on Japan. They had to make a right hand turn so the torque from the engines would help them get turned around quicker.

@@flyrobroy Good to know- thanks for the answer! Do you mind if I ask what was your favorite aircraft you got to fly, and what would be on your short list of planes you’ve always wanted to fly? And thank you for your service!

Not gonna lie, seeing him so close to a massive spinning propeller made me quite uneasy.

"Run away! Run away!!"

That guy was stressing me out so bad

the way he runs 😂

He runs like a girl 😂

Thanks for your service Rob!

Awesome, thanks RJ! So grateful for all your blood, sweat and tears on keeping the mighty COD airborne all those years.

Thanks B.P.!

Awesome, thanks Sooz!

Thanks Noah!